Chapter Summaries

Qi Ling allowed exiled cultivators to return to Task World 4, while Xu Xing observed the progress of her mission and Chen Xuanqing’s unconventional efforts in another world. Chi Jiuyu finished her stay at Cauldron Pavilion, then Xu Xing summoned her to discuss the hundred arts of cultivation.

• Cultivators rushed to claim the mountain’s spiritual treasures, but the Venerable’s warning made them take only what suited their needs, and Floating Cliff began cultivating.
• Qi Ling encountered exiled Earth Origin Sect cultivators in the Chaos Rift and stopped the sword formation after they asked for a place to settle.
• Xu Xing judged that letting the exiles return would help Task World 4 recover, then reviewed how Chen Xuanqing had founded Xuanqing Palace and begun guiding people from behind the scenes.
• Chi Jiuyu paid her Cauldron Pavilion expenses with Spirit Stones reimbursed by her Martial Uncle and traded ten of them to a disciple for protective talismans.
• Xu Xing summoned Chi Jiuyu and told her he wanted to discuss the hundred arts of cultivation.

Chi Jiuyu learned that Xu Xing planned to send her to the Supreme Dao Sect to study talisman swords under Xiao Zhao’s sister, Hong Qianqian. Meanwhile, Xu Xing met Confusion and the Xiao brothers, gave Xiao Ming a Blood Jade, and revealed Confusion’s identity as the Ancestor of the Demonic Path.

• Xu Xing told Chi Jiuyu to prepare for a trip to the Supreme Dao Sect to study talisman-making with the founder of its talisman-sword lineage, and Chi Jiuyu mistakenly guessed Senior Brother Cheng before learning the teacher was Xiao Zhao’s older sister.
• Xu Xing sent Chi Jiuyu back to her abode and gave her a limited-edition controller, which she proudly set aside before messaging Zhao Ruohan about Hong Qianqian and Xiao Ye’s younger sister.
• Confusion met Xu Xing at a city plaza with his disciples Xiao Fan and Xiao Ming, and explained that he had chosen the Sword Sect’s Ascension Platform as a marker for his plans.
• Confusion asked Xu Xing to give Xiao Ming an opportunity, and Xu Xing gave him a Blood Jade suited to body cultivation.
• Xiao Ming realized Xu Xing was the Sword Ancestor and asked Confusion which Founder Ancestor he was, and Confusion identified himself as the Ancestor of the Demonic Path.

Xiao Ming learned that Xiao Fan’s master was the Ancestor of the Demonic Path, while Confusion discussed exploring worlds beyond their own with Xu Xing. In Task World 1, Zhou Kongming used the Time Scenery module to reach into a past moment on Qi Star and began trying to retrieve a genetic sample as the world’s will resisted.

• Xiao Fan took his stunned elder brother Xiao Ming aside to explain that Confusion, his master, was the Ancestor of the Demonic Path.
• Confusion asked Xu Xing about visiting other worlds, and Xu Xing said he could explore the Chaos Sea and look for Yuan.
• Zhou Kongming activated the Time Scenery module after the genetic optimization project showed no progress, accepting a five percent reduction to the reward caps for Tasks 2 and 3.
• Zhou Kongming entered the temporal imprints of Qi Star’s history and chose the moment before Kariuvars destroyed the gene bank.
• Zhou Kongming reached into the temporal imprint, causing the world’s will to awaken and the false past universe to form around Qi Star.
• A great hand emerged through an illusory gate and grasped toward Qi Star, making the universe tremble and begin to collapse.

Zhou Kongming dragged Kariuvars’s underground base out of a collapsing Time Imprint, but only recovered a heart and blood before the imprint shattered. A month later, he began preparing the Qixing Civilization for a new future by cloning people and passing cultivation methods to Heng.

• Zhou Kongming failed to move all of Qi Star, so he narrowed his target to Kariuvars’s underground base and pulled it out as the surrounding possibility collapsed.
• The Time Imprint shattered, leaving Zhou Kongming with Kariuvars’s heart and blood; he exited the imprint and returned to the seaside.
• A month later, Heng reported that 120,000 clones were being cultivated with a 98.2% survival rate, and that the samples Zhou Kongming brought back likely matched the original Qi Star People.
• Zhou Kongming ordered Heng to expand the cloning operation until it reached its target population, then seal off the cloning technology.
• Zhou Kongming passed Heng several cultivation methods, including the Yin-Yang Qi-Harvesting Joyous Union Technique, and left the work of guiding the others to her.

Zhou Kongming prepared Heng to guide the newborn Qi Star People, then departed after entrusting him with the survivors and supplies. He appeared elsewhere on Qixing with a Seed of Spiritual Origin, ready to trigger the world’s spiritual-energy revival and complete his first mission.

• Zhou Kongming gave Heng the complete Yin-Yang Qi-Harvesting Joyous Union Technique and explained that the world would soon change, leaving Heng to decide how to guide the newborn Qi Star People.
• Heng proposed using virtual reality to teach and entertain the newborns, and Zhou Kongming allowed cultivators at the third level of Qi Refining or above to keep using it.
• After a month, Zhou Kongming counted 117,837 surviving newborns and told Heng to take responsibility for their future.
• Zhou Kongming vanished after giving Heng a sword formation and ten thousand Spirit-Replenishing Pills, and Heng accepted the gifts.
• Zhou Kongming appeared in a remote forest on Qixing and opened his hand to reveal the Seed of Spiritual Origin, which could trigger the revival of spiritual tides.

Zhou Kongming planted a Seed of Spiritual Origin on Qi Star, beginning the revival of spiritual energy and setting the stage for the planet’s future. After Mission One was completed, he unlocked the Ascension Point exchange center and discovered that it offered civilization achievements and world-will items.

• Zhou Kongming infused the Seed of Spiritual Origin with mana, causing spiritual energy to begin forming in the world’s web of principles and making Qi Star the starting point for the coming spirit tide.
• Zhou Kongming replaced his Time Scenery Auxiliary Module with Spirit Tide Mitigation and continued observing Qi Star as its spiritual energy rose.
• Heng prepared education for the 117,837 newborn Qi Star People, and nearly one-third gained self-awareness and learned about cultivation, though rapid growth shortened their lifespans by one-third.
• Zhou Kongming observed that a triple-composite Child of the World had appeared among the newborn Qi Star People.
• Zhou Kongming settled Mission One, obtained one Ascension Point, and unlocked the exchange center, where he found civilization achievements and World Will Infant Forms available at different prices.

Chi Jiuyu prepared to travel to the Supreme Dao Sect with a bundle of heaven-and-earth qi she planned to sell. Xu Xing sent her away through a storage ring, and Yueling immediately asked him for money too.

• Chi Jiuyu packed specialty heaven-and-earth qi to sell at the Supreme Dao Sect, while Yueling helped carry it in exchange for a game controller.
• Chi Jiuyu left Zhang Yunlu in charge of her cave abode and set out with Yueling for the Sword Ancestor Hall.
• Yueling transported them to the Sword Ancestor Hall, where Xu Xing asked Chi Jiuyu if she was ready.
• Xu Xing gave Chi Jiuyu a storage ring and told her to decide how long to stay, and she vanished.
• Yueling asked Xu Xing to give her money too, just as an aloof and elegant figure appeared beside him.

Yueling got money from Bie Xuening, while Xu Xing and Bie Xuening discussed Confusion, his disciple, and the plans to bring Yuan back. At the Supreme Dao Sect, Chi Jiuyu reunited with Zhao Ruohan, arranged to stay with her, and met Zhao Ruohan’s mother, Dao Master Chengmeng.

• Yueling knelt before Bie Xuening, received a storage ring, and hurried to deposit the Spirit Coins into her alternate account.
• Xu Xing told Bie Xuening that Confusion had invited him to meet and that he thought Confusion could search for Yuan once the current arrangements were complete.
• Chi Jiuyu met Zhao Ruohan at the Supreme Dao Sect, received the Scripture Sword Book, and said she would study it that night.
• Chi Jiuyu offered Zhao Ruohan qi of heaven and earth briefly held by Yueling, and Zhao Ruohan agreed to try two portions for refining a divine ability.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan discussed Xiao Ye’s younger sister and the upcoming Sword Sect special recruitment.
• Dao Master Chengmeng welcomed Chi Jiuyu and asked her to look after Zhao Ruohan, and Chi Jiuyu assured her that they were friends.

Chi Jiuyu studied the Scripture Sword Book and successfully used its talisman-sword techniques after repeated attempts. The next morning, Hong Qianqian joined Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan for breakfast and asked how her study was going.

• Zhao Chengmeng and Zhao Ruohan left Chi Jiuyu to study the Scripture Sword Book on her own.
• Chi Jiuyu read the jade slip and practiced the sword art, succeeding after twenty-seven attempts to form a talismanic rune and summon flames.
• Chi Jiuyu combined wind, thunder, and fire into a lightning-fire tornado before dismissing it and going to sleep.
• The next morning, Zhao Ruohan served Chi Jiuyu breakfast, and Chi Jiuyu ate it alongside a roasted chicken leg.
• Hong Qianqian arrived, shared the chicken leg, and asked Chi Jiuyu how she was progressing with the Scripture Sword Book.

Chi Jiuyu learned the basics of the Talisman Dao from Hong Qianqian while other Ascension Envoys advanced their missions. On Qi Star, Zhou Xian used his past-life knowledge to reach a Changyuan Civilization specimen and harvest its innate talent.

• Chi Jiuyu demonstrated that she had mastered the Scripture Sword Book in one night, and Hong Qianqian gave her the Void-Expounding Dao Talisman Book and a storage ring.
• Chi Jiuyu studied talisman arts and processed Heaven-and-Earth Qi while Xiao Yu and Gao Wuwang made progress on their respective tasks.
• Zhou Xian, reborn in Qi Star’s Newborn Era, traveled with other youths to a laboratory and entered the first level of Qi Refining.
• Zhou Kongming approved Zhou Xian’s request to visit the laboratory holding Changyuan Civilization organisms.
• Zhou Xian touched a Changyuan Civilization organism and used an evolved form of the Yin-Yang Qi-Harvesting Joyous Union Technique to harvest its innate talent.

Zhou Xian absorbed a Changyuan Civilization creature’s innate talent through the altered Yin-Yang Spirit Refining Source-Seizing Technique, nearly dying before a vortex in his soul consumed the overwhelming information. Zhou Kongming later revealed himself as the supposed World Destroyer, but after Zhou Xian doubted him and was killed and revived, Zhou Xian finally believed his explanation.

• Zhou Kongming examined the world will’s altered divine ability and recognized its dangerous source-seizing power.
• Zhou Xian endured the extraction of a Changyuan creature’s innate talent until a vortex in his soul absorbed the flood of information and he collapsed.
• Heng confirmed Zhou Xian was alive and sent a nursing robot to carry him from the laboratory.
• Zhou Kongming returned to Qi Star, found the unconscious Zhou Xian, healed him, and revealed himself as the World Destroyer while explaining the world will’s false memories.
• Zhou Xian pretended to believe Zhou Kongming but secretly planned to oppose him, so Zhou Kongming killed him with a sword strike.
• The Twelve Yuanchen Space-Light Sword Array revived Zhou Xian, and he then believed Zhou Kongming’s explanation.

Xu Xing learned that the Beast God Realm’s war had ended and considered when to place an Ascension Platform there. You told him how the world he had once visited had become the Peaceful Realm, while the former Beast God Realm had been renamed the Earth Immortal Realm.

• Xu Xing learned that the Beast God Realm’s war had ended, but its people needed time to rebuild before he could deploy an Ascension Platform.
• You appeared beside Xu Xing and complained that Xuan and Gu were keeping the front lines quiet while withholding a Dao Soldier Strange Beast.
• You told Xu Xing that the world he had visited after Xuan knocked him out of the Great Profound Realm had changed, with Jiang Lin and other cultivators building Taiping Dao into a powerful force.
• You said that the world had been renamed the Peaceful Realm, and Xu Xing noted that the former Beast God Realm had also just changed its name.
• Xu Xing explained that the Beast God Realm’s people had renamed it the Earth Immortal Realm after the Human Race defeated the Beast God Race.

Xu Xing and You discussed the Peaceful Realm’s potential ascender, Daoist Xuanling, and You agreed to help build momentum for his ascent. After Xu Xing reunited with Yuanjun and Bie Xuening at the Sword Sect, Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan struggled to sell their goods at the Supreme Dao Sect’s trading area, where Zhao Ruohan pointed out a problem with their location.

• Xu Xing learned that the Earth Immortal Realm’s Human Race had defeated the Beast God Race after a war lasting more than six hundred years, though the realm still needed time to rebuild before anyone ascended.
• You told Xu Xing that Daoist Xuanling of the Peaceful Realm had nearly met the requirements for ascension, and Xu Xing asked You to intimidate the Profound Penetrations and build momentum for him.
• Xu Xing descended the Sword Sect mountain and found Yuanjun talking with Bie Xuening; he explained that Daoist Xuanling was the prospective ascender, then Bie Xuening left after receiving messages from Charm Ancestor.
• Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan waited at their Supreme Dao Sect stall without making a sale, and Zhao Ruohan said their busy location was unsuitable for selling there.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan waited at their conspicuous stall for buyers seeking spell-refining materials, while secretly studying cultivation techniques. As evening came, customers arrived in the form of disguised puppets and a paper man, and Chi Jiuyu made her first sales.

• Chi Jiuyu learned from Zhao Ruohan that secluded buyers would avoid the prime stall locations, but she could not change stalls until the next day.
• Chi Jiuyu read the Void-Expounding Dao Talisman Book · Hong Qianqian Annotated Edition while Zhao Ruohan secretly studied notes on her latest divine ability after feeling outmatched by Chi Jiuyu.
• A disguised puppet incarnation bought three jade boxes from Chi Jiuyu and paid with the Supreme Dao Sect’s crystal-card system before vanishing.
• A paper man bought three more jade boxes without haggling, paid with a crystal card, and self-immolated.

Chi Jiuyu and Zhao Ruohan sold the last of their spellcrafting materials while Zhao Ruohan noticed Chi Jiuyu was studying in secret. Later, Yuanjun and Xu Xing visited Ji Yue, whose old rivalry with Yuanjun had once left Xu Xing caught in the crossfire, and Xu Xing suggested Ji Yue’s injuries might heal sooner than expected.

• Chi Jiuyu sold the remaining materials to a Supreme Dao Sect disciple, who bought both portions hoping to resell them for profit.
• Chi Jiuyu’s phone revealed that she had been reading the Void-Expounding Dao Talisman Book, and she invited Zhao Ruohan to celebrate their sales.
• Yuanjun and Xu Xing visited Ji Yue in the Sword Sect inner sect, where Ji Yue and Yuanjun recalled their childhood rivalry.
• Ji Yue revealed that she had avoided Yuanjun while frail because she felt diminished beside her, but she still intended to keep competing with her.
• Xu Xing said Ji Yue’s injuries might not take so long to heal, while explaining that severing the backlash from her failed Immortal-Knocking Pass would also destroy her.

Xu Xing learned that he might eventually refine his Sword Qi enough to heal Ji Yue’s injuries, and he discussed the changing cultivation era with her. After leaving Ji Yue, he discovered that Yuanjun already knew about Yan Ming’s feelings for Ji Yue, though Ji Yue herself did not; meanwhile, Bie Xuening checked in with Chi Jiuyu, who reported her studies at the Supreme Dao Sect were going well.

• Xu Xing showed Ji Yue his developing Sword Qi and said he might be able to restore her injuries, while Ji Yue agreed to entrust the matter to him.
• Ji Yue and Xu Xing discussed Zhang Yunlu, Chi Jiuyu, and how the younger generation had a more relaxed outlook than cultivators of the past.
• After leaving Ji Yue’s courtyard, Xu Xing admitted to Yuanjun that Yan Ming’s feelings for Ji Yue troubled him, and Yuanjun said Ji Yue had not considered the matter that way.
• Bie Xuening won another game, fed the pond fish, and messaged Chi Jiuyu to ask about her studies at the Supreme Dao Sect.
• Chi Jiuyu sent Bie Xuening photos of herself with Zhao Ruohan and her meal, reported mastering the Earth-Subduing Talisman, and complained that the Sword Sect’s food needed improvement.

Xu Xing told Bie Xuening and Yuanjun that stable worlds’ wills could not directly interfere with their worlds, leaving them to wonder how Heaven had become the Cang Ancestor. A month after the first Ascension Envoys began their missions, Chi Jiuyu discovered she had been selected as a Type III Ascension Envoy, then tried to hide the news from Zhao Ruohan.

• Bie Xuening teased Yuanjun about her lonely nights by the lake in the past and revealed that Xu Xing had known about them too.
• Xu Xing explained that a world’s will or heavenly will could only directly interfere when its world’s laws were disrupted, raising questions about how Heaven had descended into the Great Profound Realm and become the Cang Ancestor.
• Xu Xing described how the Earth Immortal Realm’s Heavenly Will had exploited the collision and fusion of two worlds to influence cultivators and prepare contingencies.
• More than ten days passed, and the first batch of Ascension Envoys completed their initial missions, with Xiao Yu leading the settlement results.
• Chi Jiuyu saw that her Taixuan Immortal Network interface listed her as an inactive Type III Ascension Envoy and felt excited about the opportunity.
• Zhao Ruohan visited Chi Jiuyu, who tried to conceal her selection while feeling guilty and smug.

Chi Jiuyu showed Zhao Ruohan her progress in talisman-sword cultivation, then learned Zhao was a second-batch Ascension Envoy. On Qi Star, Zhou Xian confronted the Deep Sea Whale Emperor, while Zhou Kongming watched to see whether the world’s unusual talents could support a distinct cultivation path.

• Chi Jiuyu demonstrated that she had reached Talisman Arts Merging Sword, but complained that none of her talismans had sold.
• Zhao Ruohan told Chi Jiuyu she was a second-batch Ascension Envoy and would begin her mission the next day.
• On Qi Star, Zhou Xian prepared to fight the Deep Sea Whale Emperor, whose imminent Foundation Establishment was expected to trigger a disastrous tsunami.
• Zhou Xian refused a request to use Level Three weapons, hoping to devour the whale emperor’s energy and establish a divine ability foundation.
• Zhou Xian struck the Deep Sea Whale Emperor, who emerged from the sea and targeted Zhou Xian as a source of power.
• Beyond Qi Star, Zhou Kongming watched the battle and considered whether the planet’s talents could produce its own cultivation system.

Zhou Xian nearly defeated the Deep Sea Whale Emperor, but the world will withdrew its favor from him and restored the whale’s past-life memories. The whale transformed into a powerful humanoid and accused Zhou Xian of serving the World-Destroyer.

• Zhou Xian’s squad monitored his battle with the Deep Sea Whale Emperor and discussed seeking Level Three weapon authorization if he fell into danger.
• Zhou Kongming observed the fight and recognized that the world will was about to intervene against Zhou Xian.
• The world will removed Zhou Xian’s favor and transferred it to the Deep Sea Whale Emperor.
• Zhou Xian trapped the whale with the Gan Yang Spirit Refining Blade Array and prepared to seize its foundation, but his talent-fusing vortex disappeared.
• The Deep Sea Whale Emperor broke free, recovered memories of his past life as the Profound Sound Supreme, and transformed into a humanoid.
• The transformed whale called Zhou Xian a lackey of the World-Destroyer.

The Deep Sea Whale Emperor tried to change the past but was swiftly defeated by Zhou Kongming, who restored Zhou Xian’s talent-fusing ability and explained that he had helped Zhou Xian because he was human. Back at the Supreme Dao Sect, Chi Jiuyu discovered that Zhang Yunlu had bought her talismans and grew suspicious about Zhang Yunlu’s mission.

• The Deep Sea Whale Emperor recalled his previous life and declared that he would defeat Zhou Xian and lead the whale race to rule the stars.
• Zhou Kongming appeared, destroyed the Deep Sea Whale Emperor, and returned Zhou Xian’s talent-fusing vortex.
• Heng told Zhou Xian that Zhou Kongming had helped him because only humans mattered to his master.
• Chi Jiuyu learned that someone had bought ten of her Spirit-Gathering Talismans and saw that the buyer was Zhang Yunlu.
• Zhang Yunlu told Chi Jiuyu that she was going on a mission the next day, and Chi Jiuyu wondered whether Zhang Yunlu was involved in something bigger.